Team:

Senior Editor: Carrie Bly (MDes HPDM 19)

Editorial Team & Authors: Proey Liao (MArch II, MDes HPDM 21), Fiona Kenney (MDes HPDM 20), Carrie Bly, Anirudh Gurumoorthy (MDes HPDM 20), Yashada Wagle (MDes HPDM 20), Shira Grosman (MLA I AP, MDes ULE 20), Géraud Bablon (MUP, MPP 22), Kari Roynesdal (MLA I AP, MUP 20), and Polly Sinclair (MLA I 21).

Graphic Design of Limited Print Special Edition: Edward Wang (MArch I AP 22)

WiD Bib covers theories including: Intersectionality, Critical Race, Queer, Class, Feminism, Post humanism, Cyberfeminism, Critical Indigenous, and National Identity. It offers expanded bibliographies for Feminist and Queer Theory, suggesting texts that tackle how and why they engage with design.

This report consists of three parts. (1) Introduction: a disclaimer to our work and its limits. (2) A discussion on the relationship between identity theories and the dimensions of identity they aim to elucidate, contest, and contextualize. (3) A bibliography of briefly annotated articles or chapters, organized by the identity topics listed above. We select a few short texts which contextualize the making of each theory, rather than canonical texts by the most prominent authors. These selected texts serve as a reference point to guide exploration of each theory with reference to its historically situated context. Further readings can always be found by reviewing the works cited list of each framework text.

This pdf edition of the 2018-19 WiD Bib is text only, optimized for regular printing. 50 copies of a special edition print, using the content of this pdf, were sold and distributed to faculty and students of Harvard Graduate School of Design in May 2019. This special edition is available for view online and in the Frances Loeb Library at Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Excerpt from Interview with Carrie Bly, Founder of WiD Bib and Editor of the 1st Edition

Carrie is currently a PhD student in History and Theory of Architecture at the Princeton School of Architecture. Her research interests currently center on configurations of interior and exterior at the turn of the twentieth century in German-American discourses of psychology and design.

"Often, it was extra-curricular groups that brought to the political complexity or urgency of concepts such as identity, narrative, labor, energy, environment, etc to the surface, and asserted that political traction in a way that transforms the school and the context of a GSD education. For example, in my time at the GSD, WiD was a powerful advocate for gender equity and the recognition of identity politics as they circulate not only within the design field, but also design education. Extra-curricular student work may lie outside of the regular coursework, but it is integral to the GSD. And I think it is that position of being "outside" the core of education, yet transformative to it, which poses an opportunity for WiD and other student organizations. Of course, what is inside and what is outside may change from semester to semester, but I encourage WiD to continue to hold some space for the work which can only happen outside of classes - and to engage that space not just through conversation, but with work - the transformation of energy and form from one condition to another; a conjunction of what must be thought with what must be done.”